Showing posts with label wine casks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine casks. Show all posts

November 14, 2008

Bergerac

Location: (1) Dordogne, N21 coming into Bergerac from the south, junction with D660 towards Cahors and Sarlat (2) Bergerac town centre, south west side of Vieux Pont (old bridge)
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Found two splendid roundabouts in Bergerac.

The first - at the junction between the N21 towards the town centre and the D660 for Sarlat - has almost too much going on: men turning a capstan, wine casks, waterfalls, lamp-posts, trees and an autumnal flowerbed with a small crab apple and rudbekias.






The second, on the south west side of the old bridge in the centre of Bergerac, is a fountain with leaping fish.




July 26, 2008

The Pigeonnier

Location: South of Porte-Ste-Marie, Lot & Garonne, junction of D930 to Lavardac with D119 (to Le Passage and Agen) and D642 to Buzet.

This roundabout on the way to Buzet has a wonderful diversity of elements. Not content with just a pigeonnier (dovecote) above the flower-beds, we are also reminded of Buzet's viniculture with the casks, the vines and the old agricultural implements.